[WEB SECURITY] Closing web sites due to legislation

[Pavol Luptak]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:50:23PM +0300, MustLive wrote:
> I agree with all your argumentation, Pavol (those aspects which you
> referred to security, similarly can be referred to privacy). Just
> will add the note concerning forcing people.
> 
> From one side, forcing is not very acceptable way, but from other side it's
> needed to remind people - to change current nihilistic situation. And in my
> opinion for security it must be more active, then for privacy. So forcing
> people, in non-aggressive and peaceful way, i.e. by reminding (like
> reminding about holes at websites or in webapps, as I'm doing for more then
> 7 years) can and should be done. And much more for security, then privacy
> (and this EU law concerns only privacy, so "as always they forgot about
> security").

Yes, but you are doing it on your own using your own time and money.

EU legislators will do it using tax payers money. That's a big difference.

> Interesting rhetorical question: does any country in EU can to not implement
> this law, because of "not well-thought law", "people are protesting" or
> "there are no money for implementation" (aka "financial crisis"). I
> understand that it's obligatory for every member of EU (I've wrote it
> rhetorically), but anyway some prudence can be made, like it was done in UK.
> So I wish for every country in EU to implement this law harmlessly. And
> there are a lot of other interesting laws, about which I'll write soon.

Yes, that's because the EU is not about people's opinions and their needs, 
but about high-level politicians and their interests. 
(OK, in the recent year I became a really big euro-skeptic).

Pavol
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